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This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Education is preparation to live completely (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Reading is seeing by proxy (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
To have a specific style is to be poor in speech (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is the same in all cases - less government (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don’t care if they are shot themselves. (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher. (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings. (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding. (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
We too often forget that not only is there ‘a soul of goodness in things evil,’ but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous. (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society (Herbert Spencer Quotes)